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Motion Picture MP2006-37.

The President’s Tour of the Pacific.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Date: July – August, 1944.
Formats: VHS copy of a 16 mm original (original film was retained by Georgia Southern University).
Sound: No.
Color: Yes.
Running Time: 17 min., 19 sec.
Footage: 615 ft.
Produced by: United States Navy.
Copyright Restrictions: Copyright belongs to Georgia Southern University.

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SHOT LIST

    Reel 1
00:35President Franklin D. Roosevelt traveled on the heavy cruiser, Baltimore. Escorting destroyers were Cummings, Fanning, Dunlap, and Woodworth.
00:56Pearl Harbor turns out to greet the President.
01:27The President and his party resided at the Holmes Estate in Waikiki. The President lounges in the garden with several others, including William Rigdon.
03:56He goes on an inspection tour about Oahu. They pass through Kolekole Pass over the Waianai Mountains.
04:57 At Schofield Barracks, then at Hickam Field.
06:14At Washington Palace, the residence of the Governor of Hawaii.
06:40 At Schofield Barracks, the Seventh Division passes in review.
08:05The Commandant’s house on Finger Bay, Attu. Several men, including Mr. Rigdon are standing around.
08:42Touring the Island of Attu in the Aleutians.
09:34They arrive at Kodiak, see the Naval Operating Base, and fish at Buskin Lake. A Mackenzie snow dog runs about.
11:40The Inland Passage near Juneau. They go fishing.
14:23Embarked in the Cummings, the President arrives at the Bremerton Navy Yard.
15:16A crowd gathered at Bremerton to greet the President and hear his address to the nation.
16:06They traveled through the Rockies on the way home. They see the Mississippi River at Minneapolis.

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